μοῖρα: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ας (Ion. <b class="b3">μοῖρα</b>, acc. <b class="b3">μοῖραν</b>, gen. ης), (μείρομαι) <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[part]], opp. whole, <b class="b3">τριτάτη μ. [νυκτός</b>] <span class="bibl">Il.10.253</span>; [ἐσθλῶν] τριτάτην… μ. <span class="bibl">Od.4.97</span>; μενέτω τριτάτῃ ἐνὶ μ. <span class="bibl">Il.15.195</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> [[portion]] of land, of a country, etc., χώρης ὀλίγην ἔτι μοῖραν ἔχοντες <span class="bibl">16.68</span>; μ. πατρῴας γῆς διαιρετόν <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Tr.</span>163</span>; ἡ Περσέων μ. <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.75</span>; [<b class="b3">ἐς] δυώδεκα μοίρας δασάμενοι</b> Αἴγυπτον <span class="bibl">Id.2.147</span>; Πελοποννήσουτῶν πέντε τὰς δύο μοίρας <span class="bibl">Th.1.10</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> [[division]] of a people, <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.146</span>; of an army, <span class="bibl">Hdn.6.6.3</span>; in codd. of X., freq.f.l. for [[μόρα]]. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> political [[party]], τὸν δῆμον πρὸς τὴν ἑωυτοῦ μ. προσεθήκατο <span class="bibl">Hdt.5.69</span>; τριῶν δὲ μ. ἡ 'ν μέσῳ σῴζει πόλεις <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Supp.</span> 244</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">5</span> [[degree]], in the astron. and geog. sense, <span class="bibl">Hipparch.1.7.11</span>, <span class="bibl">Gem.1.6</span>, <span class="bibl">Cleom.2.5</span>, etc.: [[division]] of the zodiac, <span class="bibl">Arat.716</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">560</span> (pl.), <span class="bibl">Procl.<span class="title">Hyp.</span>3.52</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> [[lot]], [[portion]] or [[share]] which falls to one, esp. in the distribution of booty, ἴση μ. <span class="bibl">Il.9.318</span>; μ. καὶ γέρας ἐσθλὸν ἔχων <span class="bibl">Od.11.534</span>; of a meal, μοίρας ἔνεμον <span class="bibl">8.470</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">14.448</span>, etc.; μ. ἔχειν γαίης <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Th.</span>413</span>; σπλάγχνων μ. <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Pax</span>1105</span> (hex.); <b class="b3">τὴν τοῦ πατρὸς μοῖραν λαγχάνειν</b> one's [[inheritance]], [[patrimony]], Lexap.<span class="bibl">D.43.51</span>, cf. <span class="title">AP</span>11.382.22 (Agath.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> generally, [[part]], [[lot]], <b class="b3">οὐδ' αἰδοῦς μ. ἔχουσιν</b> have no [[part]] in shame, <span class="bibl">Od.20.171</span>; εὐθυμίης μείζω μ. μεθέξει <span class="bibl">Democr.258</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">263</span>; ἐν παντὶ παντὸς μ. ἔνεστι Anaxag.11, cf. 6; μ. ἔχειν ἀχέων <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Th.</span>945</span> (lyr.); μ. Ἀφροδίτας <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Supp.</span>1041</span> (lyr.); <b class="b3">ἔχουσι μ. οὐκ εὐπέμπελον</b> [[an office]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Eu.</span>476</span>; <b class="b3">τέσσαρας μ. ἔχον ἐμοί</b> filling [[the place of]] four [[relations]] to me, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ch.</span>238</span>; μ. ἡδονῆς πορεῖν <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Pr.</span>631</span>; <b class="b3">κατὰ τὴν ἰδίαν ἑκάστου μ</b>., [[pro virili parte]], <span class="bibl">Lycurg.64</span>; οὐκ ἐλαχίστην συμβάλλεσθαι μ. πρός τι Plu.2.9f, cf. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Ath.</span>19</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> one's <b class="b2">portion in life, lot, destiny</b>, ἐπὶ γάρ τοι ἑκάστῳ μοῖραν ἔθηκαν ἀθάνατοι <span class="bibl">Od.19.592</span>, etc.; μ. βροτῶν <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Eu.</span>105</span>; mostly of [[ill fortune]], but also of good, e. g. opp. <b class="b3">ἀμμορίη</b>, <span class="bibl">Od.20.76</span>; ἡ πεπρωμένη μ. <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.91</span>; ἐξιστορῆσαι μ. <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Th.</span>506</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ag.</span>1314</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">μ</b>. (sc. <b class="b3">ἐστι</b>) c. inf., 'tis <b class="b2">one's fate</b>, οὐ γάρ τοι πρὶν μ. φίλους ἰδέειν <span class="bibl">Od.4.475</span>; οὐ γάρ πώ τοι μ. θανεῖν <span class="bibl">Il.7.52</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">15.117</span>: c. acc. et inf., εἰ μ.… δαμῆναι πάντας ὁμῶς <span class="bibl">17.421</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">16.434</span>; ἔσχε μοῖρ' Ἀχιλλέα θανεῖν <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ph.</span>331</span>; ὡς αὐτὸν ἥξοι μ. πρὸς παιδὸς θανεῖν <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">OT</span>713</span>; <b class="b3">εἴ μοι ξυνείη φέροντι μοῖρα</b> ib.<span class="bibl">863</span> (lyr.); <b class="b3">μ. βιότοιο</b> one's [[portion]] or [[measure]] of life, <span class="bibl">Il.4.170</span> (as v. l. for <b class="b3">πότμον</b>) <b class="b3">; ὑπὲρ μοῖραν</b> (v. <b class="b3">μόρος</b>) <span class="bibl">Il.20.336</span>; <b class="b3">ἀγαθᾷ μοίρᾳ</b> by good [[luck]], <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ion</span>153</span> (lyr.); <b class="b3">θείᾳ μοίρᾳ</b> by divine [[providence]], <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Mem.</span>2.3.18</span>; κατά τινα θείαν μ. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">EN</span>1099b10</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Pl. <span class="title">Men.</span>99e</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ap.</span>33c</span>; opp. παρὰ μοῖραν Δίος Alc.<span class="title">Supp.</span>14.10. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> like [[μόρος]], <b class="b2">man's appointed doom</b>, i.e. [[death]], <span class="bibl">Il.6.488</span>, <span class="bibl">Od.11.560</span>; in full, θάνατος καὶ μ. <span class="bibl">Il.17.672</span>, etc.; μ. ὀλοή… θανάτοιο <span class="bibl">Od.2.100</span>; θανάτου μ. <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pers.</span>917</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ag.</span>1462</span> (both anap.); <b class="b3">πρὸ μοίρας</b> before the [[appointed time]], <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>686</span>, <span class="bibl">Isoc.11.8</span>; ἐξέπλησε μ. τὴν ἑωυτοῦ <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.164</span>,<span class="bibl">3.142</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">1.91</span>; <b class="b3">τῇ σεωυτοῦ μ. περίεις</b> ib.<span class="bibl">121</span>; also, [[the cause of death]], <span class="bibl">Od. 21.24</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">IV</span> [[that which is meet and right]], in Hom. mostly in phrase <b class="b3">κατὰ μοῖραν</b> [[in order]], [[rightly]], <span class="bibl">Il.16.367</span>; κατὰ μ. ἔειπες <span class="bibl">1.286</span>, al.; ἐν μοίρῃ πάντα διίκεο <span class="bibl">19.186</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Od.22.54</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>775c</span>, <span class="bibl">958d</span>; opp. παρὰ μοῖραν <span class="bibl">Od.14.509</span>; <b class="b3">ἔχει μ</b>. it is [[meet and right]], <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hipp.</span>988</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> [[respect]], [[esteem]], οὐκ ἔστιν ὅτῳ μείζονα μ. νείμαιμ' ἤ σοι <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>294</span> (anap.), cf. <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Tr.</span>1239</span>; <b class="b3">ἐν οὐδεμιῇ μοίρῃ μεγάλῃ ἄγειν τινά</b> hold one in no great [[respect]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.172</span>; ἐν μείζονι μ. εἶναι <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Cri.</span>51b</span>; ἀτιμοτάτῃ ἐνὶ μ. <span class="bibl">Theoc.14.49</span>; μεγάλην μ. καὶ τιμὴν ἔχει <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Cra.</span>398b</span>; κατατιθέναι τι ἐν μοίραις ἐλάττοσι <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Lg.</span>923b</span>; τοὺς θεοὺς μοίραις ποεῖσθε μηδαμῶς <span class="bibl">S. <span class="title">OC</span>278</span> is prob. corrupt. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">V</span> c. gen. almost periphr., <b class="b3">ἐν τῇ τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ μοίρᾳ ἐκεῖνό ἐστι</b> is [[a]] good, [[of the order of]] the good, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phlb.</span> 54c</span>; <b class="b3">ἄγειν ἢ φέρειν ἐν πολεμίου μ</b>. [[as if]] an enemy, <span class="bibl">D.23.61</span>; <b class="b3">νόστοιο μ</b>. for <b class="b3">νόστος</b>, <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>4.196</span>; <b class="b3">ὡς ἐν παιδιᾶς μοίρᾳ</b> [[playfully]], <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>656b</span>; ὡς ἐν φαρμάκου μ. Plu.2.6e; ὥσπερ ἐν προσθήκης μ. <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Zeux.</span>2</span>; <b class="b3">μέτοχος εἶναι τῆς τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ μοίρας</b>, i. e. <b class="b3">τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ</b>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phlb.</span>60b</span>; ἡ φιλοσόφου μ. <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ep.</span>329b</span>; ἡ τελειότης τἀγαθοῦ μ. τίς ἐστιν <span class="bibl">Procl.<span class="title">Inst.</span>25</span>; <b class="b3">θείας μ. μετέχειν</b>, i. e. <b class="b3">τοῦ θείου</b>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Prt.</span>322a</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Phdr.</span>230a</span>; <b class="b3">τὸ ἐμπλήκτως ὀξὺ ἀνδρὸς μοίρᾳ προσετέθη</b> was accounted manly, <span class="bibl">Th.3.82</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">B</span> Μοῖρα, as pr. n., [[the goddess of fate]], Hom. always (exc. <span class="bibl">Il. 24.49</span>) in sg., <span class="bibl">Il.24.209</span>, al., cf. <span class="bibl">Orph.<span class="title">Fr.</span>33</span>, etc.: three first in <span class="bibl">Hes. <span class="title">Th.</span>905</span>, etc.; as the goddess of death, <span class="bibl">Il.4.517</span>, <span class="bibl">18.119</span>: generally of evil, <span class="bibl">5.613</span>; <b class="b3">ἐγὼ δ' οὐκ αἴτιός εἰμι ἀλλὰ Ζεὺς καὶ</b> M. καὶ ἠεροφοῖτις Ἐρινύς <span class="bibl">19.87</span>: with epithets, M. <b class="b3">κραταιή, ὀλοή</b>, <span class="bibl">5.629</span>, <span class="bibl">21.83</span>; κακή <span class="bibl">13.602</span>; δυσώνυμος <span class="bibl">12.116</span>:—Trag. use sts. sg., <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>130</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ch.</span>910</span>, etc.: sts. pl., <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Pr.</span>516</span>,<span class="bibl">895</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ch.</span>306</span>, etc.; of the Furies, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Eu.</span>172</span>: later as objects of worship, <span class="title">SIG</span>1044.8 (Halic., iv/iii B. C.).—In the phrases θεοῦ μ. <span class="bibl">Od.11.292</span>, μ. θεῶν <span class="bibl">3.269</span>, <b class="b3">μοῖρα</b> is Appellat., = [[destiny]].</span>